Orange coloured paperback book with an image of a statue of a man putting on a jacket, the base of the statue reds "Albert Coates'. In black lowercase letters on the right hand side, reading sideways, are the words 'a life'. In a panel across the lower part of the book in black text is the rest of the subheading.non-fictionThe life story of Sir Albert Ernest Coates. ' "Bertie" Coates was an outstanding Australian Surgeon, and elected to stay in Sumatra to attend the many sick and wounded needing attention rather than continuing on to Australia. His dedication, far beyond the call of duty, is just another example of a well-earned award never granted or recognised by Army Headquarters.' [From page one]sir albert ernest coats, surgeon - biography, ww2, wwii, world war 2

Orange coloured paperback book with an image of a statue of a man putting on a jacket, the base of the statue reds "Albert Coates'. In black lowercase letters on the right hand side, reading sideways, are the words 'a life'. In a panel across the lower part of the book in black text is the rest of the subheading.non-fictionThe life story of Sir Albert Ernest Coates. ' "Bertie" Coates was an outstanding Australian Surgeon, and elected to stay in Sumatra to attend the many sick and wounded needing attention rather than continuing on to Australia. His dedication, far beyond the call of duty, is just another example of a well-earned award never granted or recognised by Army Headquarters.' [From page one]sir albert ernest coats, surgeon - biography, ww2, wwii, world war 2

Sir Albert Ernest Coates (1895-1977), surgeon, was born on 28 January 1895 at Ballarat, Victoria, eldest of seven children of Arthur Coates, letter carrier, and his wife Clara Annie, née Eustice, both Victorian born. Although their worldly possessions were few, Arthur and Clara raised their family in an affectionate atmosphere and instilled in them the virtues of honesty, industry and education. They were strong supporters of the Methodist Church. (Australian Dictionary of Biography extract). Arthur apparently was a Home Missionary at one stage of his life.Coates in formal dress.coates, arthur

Book with a black dustjacket, has a painted portrait of an older man in uniform on cover and white and blue text on cover and spinenon-fiction'The Albert Coates story is one of heroism, of courage, endurance and service. he is a great civilian as well as a great soldier and the book tells of his contributions to the development of medical studies and services in Melbourne-but the core of the book is his description of three-and-a-half years as a prisoner of the Japanese in Sumatra, Burma and Thailand. Written on scraps of paper of all kinds, toilet paper, anything, in rare moments of solitude between improvising medicines, amputating legs, appealing to the Japanese authorities and administering hospital camps, Albert Coates describes on of history's great feats of medicine. The first and last sections of the book have been written by Newman Rosenthal who also edited the prisoner of war section-so there is continuity of narrative.' [From front dust jacket]world war two, wwii, ww2, prisoner of war, japan